The Olav Slaymaker Awards

The awards are named and presented in honour of Olav Slaymaker former President of the International Association of Geomorphologists. Dr. Slaymaker is Professor of Geography at The University of British Columbia and Senior Fellow of St. John's College, a residential international graduate student college on the UBC campus. He has served as co-editor of The Canadian Geographer, published by Blackwell, and of Catena, an international interdisciplinary journal published by Elsevier. For service to the discipline of geomorphology, Dr. Slaymaker is a recipient of the prestigious David Linton Award from the British Geomorphological Research Group.

Introduced at the 2002 Saskatoon meeting with Geological Association of Canada, the Olav Slaymaker Awards are presented for the best student oral paper and best student poster presented at the CGRG Annual Meeting. Each winner receives a cheque for $250, a certificate, and the opportunity to list the honour in their resumé.

    • 2008 Recipients
      • André E. Zimmermann, University of British Colombia, for his presentation (co-authored M. Church and M.A. Hassan) "Step-pool stability experiments".
      • Eva Stephani, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska, for her poster (co-authored D. Fortier, R. Walsh and Y. Shur) "Preservation of the Alaska Highway".
    • 2005 Recipients
      • Daniel Shugar, University of Guelph, for his paper (co-authored Ray Kostaschuk). "The evolution of coherent flow structures over dunes in an alluvial channel, Paraná River, Argentina".

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